Gah - I missed number 6. Geez that article could use some formatting. It buried the upcoming with the previous launches. I'm an idiot for missing it - but I wonder aloud if it could have been edited better.
I'd settle for them to send a man into space one - more - time.
It's been - what - 4 years since the last one? And he got back alive right? No accidents to prevent another launch right? Hell we lost 7 people in 2003 and got back in business in 2 years.
Might help if they had follow-up trips to practice basic lunar exploration requirements since (Gemini?), or even a rocket that's capable of lifting an lunar spacecraft, buuuut. Nope. Not a peep since.
Let me know when they have something to show they can do what they're talking about. Sounds like their chatter from back in 1978 or even 1968:
re:"Three sighs for the citizens of mountain view who have to put up with all the extra airport noise and traffic congestion and get nothing."
One plane must make for one hell of a noise aggregate eh? What plural is derived from one plane to make "all" (and last I checked it's already an airfield they have runways and everything - might be planes involved already methinks). Traffic congestion is also a hoot. Because as we all know - the 101 is known for being clog free like all major roads in the Bay Area. DAMN YOU GOGGLE FOR SULLYING OUR ROADWAYS WITH YOUR UNBEKNOWNST CONGESTION! This was a PARADISE until YOU SHOWED UP!
DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
And you wonder why I use the term Slashtard? I'll use it again - you're a Slashtard!
re:"Or maybe, just maybe, he (like many Slashdotters, including myself) actually knew who Alex was, because a) he's famous and b) we have more varied interests than just whether Apple is going to release a new iPod"
Apple releasing another new iPod?! AGAIN? Cooool! What is it! What is it! What is it! What is it!
Good credit cards have them. AMEX gold (Platnum I "think" still has it) was discontinued in Oct / Nov 2006 - but - since they want to keep their 175 a year customers they've been filing and creding accounts quite a bit. Noooow are they doing this out of the saintlyness of thier hearts? Uh - no - retailers get a list of charge-backs and if agreements aren't met - voila! No more AMEX for the retailer (among other things). I think a few thousand of these "might" have gotten Apple's attention.
That and stores all over the country being slammed by angry customers (and it's harder not to offer some kind of deal when the manager has a large angry person within hitting distance - many had). AT&T was also offering deals. I got one over the phone. Simple.
SO ja - if this was planned - then the tangle of cases from multiple vendors, companies, banks, credit companies, retailers, AT&T stores, AT&T call-support must have been utter genius. OR - not. Now - the rebate solution. Sure that's always an easy contingency - ooooh except we don't have the details yet. If that was planned in advance - I don't know - a page with already written guidelines and legal support info might be lying around (you'd THINK). Nope - they're "working on that".
Why was it too soon? 90 day price protection on credit cards. Most price drops try to occur outside of this. As soon as the charge-backs began occuring from several Card companies - you can bet all hell broke lose. Other (not slashdot - oh no!) had references to frantic case loads AMEX was handling in the first 6 hours this morning. Store also reported being under seige. This is called a "pricing error" in marketplace parlance.
Right getting ripped in the press, getting notices from AT&T on refunds, getting charge-backs from the credit card companies for untold amounts of revenue, open speculation on the financial news networks shaking investor confidence?
GREAT FUCKING PLAN MORON!
Could you spend some of that apologist effort on this Senator of Idaho for me? He needs your love!
I'm guessing (because it's more fun than knowing) component drop. There's a lot of compenent-share between that and the iPod Touch, and the ramp-up of both might be pushing down the per-unit costs quite a bit.
I have an episode of Monk from iTunes, DVD rips (from my collection) of Blade Runner, Amelie', Wall Street (a must-demo for yuppies in the Financial District), and a release from "The Film Crew" (the sequal outing of the MST3K people), and a documentary called "Tilt". That's 5 full-length movies, a one hour tv show, a few music videos, 1.5 gigs of music, 200mb of photos, and I still have nearly half-a-gig left which can be expanded by deleting a movie in an instant. If I reduced some of my rip-specs I'm sure I could get in more but my images are razor-sharp.
That's more content than I can handle on a single charge, and plenty to get me though a flight where I can now check my laptop rather than unpacking it at the gate security.
I have to disclaim that the representative at AT&T said that this offer could not be extended as an official offer - or to anyone else as an agreement (meaning it's all case-by-case, and no official contract is to be assumed as it's not policy) but I was able to get (some) credit and additional rollover minutes applied to my account. It's not 200 bucks - but it's a nice gesture of faith from AT&T and I'm happy with it.
Meh. I got to be an obnoxious show-off for a few months or fielded numerous demo requests which is kind of obnoxious in reverse. Either way, I also used (and am using) the hell out of the thing, and with AT&T having a tower "right on the top of my residential building" (no joke it's disguised as a stovetop on a tower in the converted bakery lofts that I live in) the reception gave (gives) me land-line quality - which saved me the expense of a landline (been cellphone only since getting it).
Ya it's a price-drop - but at least we get upgraded features so between feature obsolescence and price drops which plague all computers and electronics - at least it's just price thus far. Remember if you wait to buy something you use - or more importantly use to generate income - to stop dropping in price or becoming obsolete then you're going to wait forever. Plus it's a (75% usage) home-business expense. What - I "want" a cheaper deduction? That's ok - really.
And people think I'm nuts buying Apple's expensive memory when I config hardware. The IRS doesn't think so. Deductables deductables deductables!
Yes. Thank god "GamesIndustry.biz" can tell the marketshare that watches FOX / MSNBC / CNN - and oh - every other news outlet - and every print source - and every radio source the truth of the matter. This is a real game-changer there.
Or perhaps it's preaching to the choir. Nah - couldn't be that. This is a win. I can feel it.
re: "Safer even, the only direction you go in a crash is down."
Unless you have a mid-air collision. then you start crashing in a sideways motion - then drop down. Or, if you hit a structure you've successfully crashed from any number of potential angles. When that bomber hit the Empire State building, it didn't even get the chance to go "down".
And of course the safety of this being better than an auto accident is suspect, because most crashes occur outside of my living room on well designated spaces called roads and freeways. If you're heading "down" there's now a risk for the person standing / sitting wherever "down" is.
Never had a phone occurance involving the time-lady - but I did a similar line-leak experiment back in the days when TVs could be "fine tuned" dial in phone conversations on the upper UHF frequencies with a portable tv (that served as my computer monitor).
Between the basic rabbit ears and all the lines strung up in the area, it was (frighteningly) easy to pick up leakage - that was quite distinct and recordable (which I didn't do - I was just checking up on school geek-rumors on the methodology and whether it was an urban myth). The trick was finding a channel that had "patterened snow" and then waiting for a call to connect.
On one such occasion I was almost tempted to pull a prank. Never did - but one call came through during a blizzard. The person was calling to report they were stuck in the snow and were leaving a message on the recipients answering machine. They left their callback number, so it would have been simple to dial that person back and ask if they needed further assistance.
Never did of course. Interesting trick though. Perphaps that's what inspired the writers of the movie "Poltergeist".
Well obviously it will be their divine mission to erradicate other life forms that would give conflict to their beliefs. We could call them "Divine Alterationists (for the) Lord Ever Knowing.
Or DALKEK for short. EXTERMINATE - EXTERMINATE!!!!!!
For terrabyte drives you might as well wait for holographic DVDs. In fact, since this idiotic format war is going into extra innings, I might wait for it myself.
LOL compare them before Adobe swallowed Frame? NeXTSTATION? Sparcstation? These are not late 90s platforms. I'm talking circa 1991-1992.
They were too niche for their applications. Granted it wasn't until the mid to late 90s before Quark could handle indexing on an ubber scale, but geez. You LIKED that god-awful interface?
I had it for the NeXT. We also used it at the book publishing division on Sparcstations. Powerfull application for building ubber complex docs and books. Horrible at anything else. There's a great tale when NeXT tried to sell a bunch of computers to Target in Minn., and they couldn't touch Quark. The challege was to build a 10 page - graphic heavy - weekend insert (the whole point of the program). With a Framemaker EXPERT - they couldn't get it done in 4 hours. This is something you can do in an hour or less (depending on source-content prep) in Quark or Indesign.
Oh did I mention that FrameMaker had an interface that emerged from the 7th circle of hell after a late-night incantation in a graveyard? You should have seen the sacrafical virgins. Not slashdotters - I'm talking WOMEN!
Slashdot Mirror
Yes it's in dispute because IBM doesn't like their history. Here's a photo of your "disputed text" in the holocaust museum:
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/9048-1.htm
You're a cocksucker, but there's a cure. Handguns are cheap and plentiful. Buy one and drill a hole in your head asshole puppyfucker.
Gah - I missed number 6. Geez that article could use some formatting. It buried the upcoming with the previous launches. I'm an idiot for missing it - but I wonder aloud if it could have been edited better.
I'd settle for them to send a man into space one - more - time.
It's been - what - 4 years since the last one? And he got back alive right? No accidents to prevent another launch right? Hell we lost 7 people in 2003 and got back in business in 2 years.
Might help if they had follow-up trips to practice basic lunar exploration requirements since (Gemini?), or even a rocket that's capable of lifting an lunar spacecraft, buuuut. Nope. Not a peep since.
Let me know when they have something to show they can do what they're talking about. Sounds like their chatter from back in 1978 or even 1968:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_space_program#Manned_spaceflight_programs
If you can fucking download one - then knock yourself out asshole.
re:"Three sighs for the citizens of mountain view who have to put up with all the extra airport noise and traffic congestion and get nothing."
One plane must make for one hell of a noise aggregate eh? What plural is derived from one plane to make "all" (and last I checked it's already an airfield they have runways and everything - might be planes involved already methinks). Traffic congestion is also a hoot. Because as we all know - the 101 is known for being clog free like all major roads in the Bay Area. DAMN YOU GOGGLE FOR SULLYING OUR ROADWAYS WITH YOUR UNBEKNOWNST CONGESTION! This was a PARADISE until YOU SHOWED UP!
DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
And you wonder why I use the term Slashtard? I'll use it again - you're a Slashtard!
Wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that they're in negotiations to develop 1 million square feet of office space on that land as well.
Oh gee - did everyone here forget that? No - it's just corporate excess and greed of course.
Carry on slashtards.
re:"Or maybe, just maybe, he (like many Slashdotters, including myself) actually knew who Alex was, because a) he's famous and b) we have more varied interests than just whether Apple is going to release a new iPod"
Apple releasing another new iPod?! AGAIN? Cooool! What is it! What is it! What is it! What is it!
Good credit cards have them. AMEX gold (Platnum I "think" still has it) was discontinued in Oct / Nov 2006 - but - since they want to keep their 175 a year customers they've been filing and creding accounts quite a bit. Noooow are they doing this out of the saintlyness of thier hearts? Uh - no - retailers get a list of charge-backs and if agreements aren't met - voila! No more AMEX for the retailer (among other things). I think a few thousand of these "might" have gotten Apple's attention.
That and stores all over the country being slammed by angry customers (and it's harder not to offer some kind of deal when the manager has a large angry person within hitting distance - many had). AT&T was also offering deals. I got one over the phone. Simple.
SO ja - if this was planned - then the tangle of cases from multiple vendors, companies, banks, credit companies, retailers, AT&T stores, AT&T call-support must have been utter genius. OR - not. Now - the rebate solution. Sure that's always an easy contingency - ooooh except we don't have the details yet. If that was planned in advance - I don't know - a page with already written guidelines and legal support info might be lying around (you'd THINK). Nope - they're "working on that".
Still think Apple planned this all out?
Why was it too soon? 90 day price protection on credit cards. Most price drops try to occur outside of this. As soon as the charge-backs began occuring from several Card companies - you can bet all hell broke lose. Other (not slashdot - oh no!) had references to frantic case loads AMEX was handling in the first 6 hours this morning. Store also reported being under seige. This is called a "pricing error" in marketplace parlance.
Right getting ripped in the press, getting notices from AT&T on refunds, getting charge-backs from the credit card companies for untold amounts of revenue, open speculation on the financial news networks shaking investor confidence?
GREAT FUCKING PLAN MORON!
Could you spend some of that apologist effort on this Senator of Idaho for me? He needs your love!
This story was carried by everyone all morning including the popular press and every tech blog out there - except this one.
Were you concerned that Apple might look "bad"?
Who the fuck is running the show around here?
re:"screwball ringtone pricing"
Music rights. The publishing houses put seperate contract clauses for revenues for songs distributed as ringtones a long time ago.
And as far as the thick iPod classics - not Boned - both got thinner.
I'm guessing (because it's more fun than knowing) component drop. There's a lot of compenent-share between that and the iPod Touch, and the ramp-up of both might be pushing down the per-unit costs quite a bit.
I have an episode of Monk from iTunes, DVD rips (from my collection) of Blade Runner, Amelie', Wall Street (a must-demo for yuppies in the Financial District), and a release from "The Film Crew" (the sequal outing of the MST3K people), and a documentary called "Tilt". That's 5 full-length movies, a one hour tv show, a few music videos, 1.5 gigs of music, 200mb of photos, and I still have nearly half-a-gig left which can be expanded by deleting a movie in an instant. If I reduced some of my rip-specs I'm sure I could get in more but my images are razor-sharp.
That's more content than I can handle on a single charge, and plenty to get me though a flight where I can now check my laptop rather than unpacking it at the gate security.
I'm happy.
HEY! That was a GOOD LINK!
I have to disclaim that the representative at AT&T said that this offer could not be extended as an official offer - or to anyone else as an agreement (meaning it's all case-by-case, and no official contract is to be assumed as it's not policy) but I was able to get (some) credit and additional rollover minutes applied to my account. It's not 200 bucks - but it's a nice gesture of faith from AT&T and I'm happy with it.
Thanks mstahl!
Meh. I got to be an obnoxious show-off for a few months or fielded numerous demo requests which is kind of obnoxious in reverse. Either way, I also used (and am using) the hell out of the thing, and with AT&T having a tower "right on the top of my residential building" (no joke it's disguised as a stovetop on a tower in the converted bakery lofts that I live in) the reception gave (gives) me land-line quality - which saved me the expense of a landline (been cellphone only since getting it).
Ya it's a price-drop - but at least we get upgraded features so between feature obsolescence and price drops which plague all computers and electronics - at least it's just price thus far. Remember if you wait to buy something you use - or more importantly use to generate income - to stop dropping in price or becoming obsolete then you're going to wait forever. Plus it's a (75% usage) home-business expense. What - I "want" a cheaper deduction? That's ok - really.
And people think I'm nuts buying Apple's expensive memory when I config hardware. The IRS doesn't think so. Deductables deductables deductables!
Yes. Thank god "GamesIndustry.biz" can tell the marketshare that watches FOX / MSNBC / CNN - and oh - every other news outlet - and every print source - and every radio source the truth of the matter. This is a real game-changer there.
Or perhaps it's preaching to the choir. Nah - couldn't be that. This is a win. I can feel it.
re:"It would seem to me that the only way to make these things remotely safe would be to equip them not only with a parachute,"
You have a parachute that deploys and fully works in 10 feet? COOOOOOOOOoooool! I want one!
re: "Safer even, the only direction you go in a crash is down."
Unless you have a mid-air collision. then you start crashing in a sideways motion - then drop down. Or, if you hit a structure you've successfully crashed from any number of potential angles. When that bomber hit the Empire State building, it didn't even get the chance to go "down".
And of course the safety of this being better than an auto accident is suspect, because most crashes occur outside of my living room on well designated spaces called roads and freeways. If you're heading "down" there's now a risk for the person standing / sitting wherever "down" is.
Never had a phone occurance involving the time-lady - but I did a similar line-leak experiment back in the days when TVs could be "fine tuned" dial in phone conversations on the upper UHF frequencies with a portable tv (that served as my computer monitor).
Between the basic rabbit ears and all the lines strung up in the area, it was (frighteningly) easy to pick up leakage - that was quite distinct and recordable (which I didn't do - I was just checking up on school geek-rumors on the methodology and whether it was an urban myth). The trick was finding a channel that had "patterened snow" and then waiting for a call to connect.
On one such occasion I was almost tempted to pull a prank. Never did - but one call came through during a blizzard. The person was calling to report they were stuck in the snow and were leaving a message on the recipients answering machine. They left their callback number, so it would have been simple to dial that person back and ask if they needed further assistance.
Never did of course. Interesting trick though. Perphaps that's what inspired the writers of the movie "Poltergeist".
But...But...I thought Silicon Valley was over - and you could do an internet business ANYWHERE!
The media told me this in 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006....
Well obviously it will be their divine mission to erradicate other life forms that would give conflict to their beliefs.
We could call them "Divine Alterationists (for the) Lord Ever Knowing.
Or DALKEK for short. EXTERMINATE - EXTERMINATE!!!!!!
For terrabyte drives you might as well wait for holographic DVDs. In fact, since this idiotic format war is going into extra innings, I might wait for it myself.
LOL compare them before Adobe swallowed Frame? NeXTSTATION? Sparcstation? These are not late 90s platforms. I'm talking circa 1991-1992.
They were too niche for their applications. Granted it wasn't until the mid to late 90s before Quark could handle indexing on an ubber scale, but geez. You LIKED that god-awful interface?
I had it for the NeXT. We also used it at the book publishing division on Sparcstations. Powerfull application for building ubber complex docs and books. Horrible at anything else. There's a great tale when NeXT tried to sell a bunch of computers to Target in Minn., and they couldn't touch Quark. The challege was to build a 10 page - graphic heavy - weekend insert (the whole point of the program). With a Framemaker EXPERT - they couldn't get it done in 4 hours. This is something you can do in an hour or less (depending on source-content prep) in Quark or Indesign.
Oh did I mention that FrameMaker had an interface that emerged from the 7th circle of hell after a late-night incantation in a graveyard? You should have seen the sacrafical virgins. Not slashdotters - I'm talking WOMEN!